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by jljljl 13y ago
I actually agree with you. They could operate completely outside the boundaries of the airport, in which case they would not have to pay the use fees to the airport. The problem is that part of their value prop to customers is that they off
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>>Alright, pass those costs on. It seems rather silly and inefficient that people have to pay more for their airport coffee or airplane tickets just because rental car companies decide stop paying their fees. >> What's the
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by jljljl 13y ago
The efficiency argument actually has very little to do with the story. I doubt anyone (including the airport) disputes the benefit of increased ride sharing. The point is that FlightCar is offering the same or competing services as an Airpo
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by jljljl 13y ago
>> healthy majority of Keynesians I don't disagree with the general text of your post, but this is really, really school dependent. I would actually bet it's easier to find non-Keynesian professors. Kenynesian theory is also
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by jljljl 13y ago
The first paragraph reads disturbingly like the reason we should make contact with them is because the people themselves are resources to be harvested. Phrased like this, it's a really good reason why we should not make contact, becaus
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by jljljl 13y ago
Funny that you mention these two, as Bill Watterson cited both Pogo and Krazy Kat as major influences on Calvin and Hobbes in the Tenth Anniversary Book. BTW, if you are a fan and for some reason have not read the Tenth Anniversary Book, I
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by jljljl 13y ago
This is more of a justification for why First Person Shooters and RTS games (specifically, Starcraft clones) will remain on the PC, and it's not all that great of a justification. FPS games on consoles have been extremely popular, and
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by jljljl 13y ago
This is kind of like saying desktop programs should refuse to work properly if BitTorrent is installed. A high number of pirates may use BitTorrent to pirate software, but that doesn't mean your program was pirated using BitTorrent.
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by jljljl 13y ago
"At trial, the Justice Department said it wanted to block Apple from using the agency business model for two years, and to stop the company from entering contracts that insure it will offer the lowest retail prices." Does anyone
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by jljljl 13y ago
Sure there are a number of competitors, but iTunes still dominates when it comes to dollar share of music purchases. Regardless of their intention, Apple has certainly "squeezed out" most of the competition, and remains the domina
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by jljljl 13y ago
Fair point :)
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by jljljl 13y ago
I wasn't talking specifically about people with cancer who have plenty of time to research which clinic is most cost effective. I stated in my post: "If I'm in the hospital with an emergency or critical condition , I probabl
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by jljljl 13y ago
Neither Lasik nor cosmetic surgeries tend to be major issues of life and death, nor do they tend to occur in emergency situations where an informed decision may not be possible. Free markets and transparent pricing that work require that th
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by jljljl 13y ago
The annoyance is that it makes his article less effective. It's like letting cool come before functional.
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by jljljl 13y ago
Thank you, this is a good explanation.
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by jljljl 13y ago
Let's assume Netflix can't operate without some form of copy protection on their streaming videos. Can someone explain, clearly and unsensationally, why this is ok when done with plugins like Silverlight, but not ok when done usin
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by jljljl 13y ago
I'm not so sure. This seems like a brilliant idea for projects that can successfully generate their own hype and buzz (as Soylent did through HN before launching their campaign), but that may not work for Joe Everyman who has a cool id
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by jljljl 13y ago
"The companies claim the result is a potential savings of more than 150 gallons during a multi-flight day for an airplane like the A320 or Boeing’s 737. Overall an airplane equipped with the EGTS could cut fuel consumption by four per
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Turkmenistan awards SpaceX contract to send its first satellite into orbit(venturebeat.com)
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Google Mine wants you to track all your stuff(geek.com)
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by jljljl 13y ago
This is probably true for a most infections you encounter in every day life, but the infection rate for surgical procedures is higher, despite reduction through sterilization and antiseptic. There are also a number of professions where the
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by jljljl 13y ago
Soylent.me is selling a month supply of soylent for $270 (International). That requires a wage of $9 per day, which is well above the $1 per day poverty limit. On an annual basis, that comes down to $3,240 per day, more than the per capita
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by jljljl 13y ago
I think we are more aware of the product's experimental nature due to having read and discussed his blogs. I'm not sure that reading the sales page discloses this as much. It definitely doesn't look like an experiment. There
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by jljljl 13y ago
You don't need a nutrition Ph.D to open a restaurant, but if you are going to claim that your restaurant provides certain health benefits, or that it is specifically tailored to certain body types and lifestyles, being a trained nutrit
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by jljljl 13y ago
One of the reasons we have consumer protection laws and the FDA is so that people _don't_ have to experiment on themselves in order to verify the more extravagant claims made by products. People should have a reasonable expectation tha
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by jljljl 13y ago
I believe in a previously shared blog post, the founder mentioned that he was planning a "large-scale controlled trial". However, I haven't seen any additional details about these plans. https://news.ycombinator.co
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by jljljl 13y ago
While clever, this reference doesn't exactly make the name more appetizing.
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by jljljl 13y ago
I agree that there are situations where the borrowing is much more blatant, and I don't think pointing out influences is a waste of time. Conversations along these lines tend to devolve into flame wars, however.
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by jljljl 13y ago
The "Can't quite put my finger on it..." piece is in reference to a common catch-phrase for bloggers who have mocked Android, Samsung, and Microsoft for "copying" elements from iOS. I agree the whole back and forth
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by jljljl 13y ago
All the images that Apple has posted so far (unless I've missed some) seem to use the white iPhone, with a blue/pastel background. I'm curious to see how the icons look in different contexts.

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